Rome or doge world
A Greek city state had a large town, surrounding homes, and surrounding farmland.
A Greek city state had a large town, surrounding homes, and surrounding farmland.
A city-state.
That is a city state.
A city built around a mountain fortress (acropolis) with surrounding farmland hedged by mountains and sea with seaports.
An independent city surrounded by farmland is typically referred to as a "county seat" or "urban center" within an agricultural region. These cities function autonomously and serve as administrative hubs for their surrounding counties, often providing essential services and infrastructure to the rural areas around them. The relationship between the city and the farmland can foster a symbiotic economic dynamic, with the city relying on agricultural products and the farms benefiting from urban markets.
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An urban center and the surrounding farmland all under a single government is called a "metropolitan area" or "metropolitan region." This encompasses a densely populated urban core along with its economically and socially interconnected surrounding areas. The governance structure typically includes a central city and its suburbs, which may share services and infrastructure.
Each city-state wanted to have enough farmland to grow food.
Farmland, forests, the lord's house or castle, and a peasant village The manor was made up of the castle, the church, the village, and the surrounding farmland.
Sumer was one of the city-states of Mesopotamia, which was located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. This area is now known as Iraq. (City-states were the city, and the surrounding farmland around it.)
I believe you are describing a "Mission".